Description
Going postal. We think of the rogue employee who snaps. But in Blood, Sweat, and Fear, Jeremy Milloy demonstrates that workplace violence never occurs in isolation. Using violence as a lens, he provides fresh and original insights into the everyday workings of capitalism, class conflict, race, and gender in the United States and Canada of the late twentieth century, bringing historical perspective to contemporary debates about North American violence.
Milloy has produced the first full-length historical exploration of the origins and effects of individual violence in the automotive industry. His gripping analysis spans 1960 to 1980, when North American auto plants were routinely the sites of fights, assaults, and even murders, and argues that violence resulted primarily from workplace conditions including on-the-job exploitation, racial tension, bureaucratization, and hypermasculinity.
This explosive book reveals that workplace violence has been a constant aspect of class conflict - and that our understanding needs to go deeper.
Blood, Sweat, and Fear explores workplace violence through the prism of autoworkers' experience, tracing the influences of capitalism, class conflict, race, and gender in the North American auto industry.
About the Author
Jeremy Milloy is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Frost Centre for Canadian and Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He is the winner of the 2016 Eugene A. Forsey Prize and the 2015 Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) Article Prize.
Reviews
Blood, Sweat And Fear is fresh, unpredictable and candid ... Milloy's research is meticulous. He examines why people do what we do -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *
Awards
Winner of The Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Award, The Society of Automotive Historians 2018 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9780774834544
Author Jeremy Milloy
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint University of British Columbia Press
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
Weight(grams) 340g
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